Table of Contents
2009 Spring
Crimes & Punishments
Introductory
Voices in Time
The Perp
- Ha Jin Stages an Investigation: 1999 / Muji City
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky Writes a Confession: c. 1865 / St. Petersburg
- The Greedy Love of Doing Wrong: c. 370 / Hippo
- False Face, False Heart: c. 1040 / Inverness
- Crime Pays: c. 1170 BC / Egypt
- Carl Warburton's Wallet: 1956 / Shady Hill
- Lazarillo de Tormes Loses His Fear of Sin: 1554 / Toledo
- The Needle Gives Because the Camel Can't: 1936 / St. Louis
- From the Grassy Knoll: 1963 / Dallas
- Campaign Promises: c. 63 BC / Rome
- The Perfect Murder: 1823 / London
- News in Brief: 1906 / Paris
- Waldo's Last Move: 1938 / Los Angeles
- The Making of a Criminal: 1960 / San Quentin
- Red Ink: 1888 / London
- Malcolm X Works the Street: c. 1943 / Harlem
- Jenny Diver in Change Alley: c. 1730 / London
- Wizardry: c. 940 / Weizhou
- Burning Down the House: 1967 / Newark
- Something is Rotten in the Agora: c. 228 / Naukratis
- House Call: 1970 / Encino
- Hearts of Darkness: c. 1934 / Barcelona
- Giving the Devil His Due: 1870 / San Francisco
- Jail Talk: 1976 / Draper
- All's Well That Ends Well: c. 750 BC / Rome
- Great Train Robbery: 1953 / New York City
- Order of Mischief: 1651 / Paris
The Plea
- Simple Solution: 1998 / Chicago
- Victor Hugo Raises a Reasonable Doubt: 1832 / Paris
- Herman Melville Forestalls a Mutiny: 1797 / Mediterranean Sea
- First to Fall: c. 442 BC / Athens
- Hannah Arendt Passes Judgment: 1961 / Jerusalem
- Manifesto: 1794 / Paris
- Conflict Resolution: 1917 / Arabia
- Heresy: 1633 / Rome
- Socrates Asks a Last Question: 399 BC / Athens
- Left or Right: 1944 / Auschwitz
- Following Orders: 1865 / Washington, D.C.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Lances a Pus-Flowing Boil: 1963 / Birmingham
- No Extraordinary Villain: c. 1899 / Yasnaya Polyana
- Root of Crime: c. 1330 / Kyoto
- G. K. Chesteron Empanels a Jury: 1909 / Battersea
- Born Crooked: 1876 / Pavia
- Miles Davis Doesn't Move: 1959 / New York City
- Shirley Jackson Casts the First Stone: 1948 / Smalltown, U.S.A.
- Pétér Nádas Reviews a Tyrannicide: 1989 / Târgoviste
- The Hour of Doom: c. 632 / Arabia
The Penalty
- Dexter Filkins Sees the World Made Flesh: 1998 / Kabul
- Enemy of the State: 1597 / London
- Franz Kafka Translates a Text: 1914 / Penal Colony
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Withholds Redemption: c. 1650 / Boston
- Sops for Cerberus: 1775 / London
- No Sound: c. 1937 / Leningrad
- Hogs in a Wallow: 1928 / Baltimore
- First Blood: c. 1721 / Bossey
- Sign on the Cross: c. 30 / Golgotha
- Making Honorable Amends: 1757 / Paris
- George Orwell Shares a Laugh: c. 1925 / Burma
- Pastoral: 1939 / New York City
- Stones of Silence: 1975 / Ireland
- Exterminating the Riffraff: c. 1368 / Nanking
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Remembers a First Love: c. 1945 / Moscow
- Setting the Crooked Straight: 1577 / London
- A Savage Emperor: c. 25 / Rome
- A Chance Is a Chance: 1938 / Outer Mongolia
- Child Care: 1693 / London
- Paper, Any Paper: 1978 / Kenya
- Rules of the Road: 1189 / England
- Last Meal: c. 1700 / Ácoma
- Rigor of Death: 1890 / Auburn
- Hung Like Doves: c. 1174 BC / Ithaca
- Going East: 1939 / Siberia
- Deliverance: 1594 / Verona
- Nemesis: 8 / Rome
- Jack Henry Abbott Sits in Darkness and a Sewer: 1980 / Salt Lake City
Departments
Essays
- Staking a Life: by Christopher Hitchens
- Murder in Black & White: by Nathaniel Rich
- Hostile Takeovers: by Matthew Power
- From the Drawing Room to the Gutter: by Charles Taylor
Conversations
Letters
What If...?
- Visual Aids
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Playing Grounds
On the track, around the table, at the target, and in the ring
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Art, Photography, & Illustrations
View a selection of art from our latest issue.
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Charts & Graphs
All of our charts and graphs, pulled from the pages of Lapham’s Quarterly.
- Blogs
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- Déjà Vu Is history repeating itself? The Déjà Vu blog investigates... Our Eyes Ache With Reading — Coping with information overload in the seventeenth century and the twenty-first. Should Have Sent a Poet — Wyclef Jean and Gabriele D’Annunzio are both artists turned politicians who wanted to bring a healing brand of nationalism back to their home countries. National Pastime — Lacrosse is one of the oldest games in North America, but the Iroquois national team can’t seem get off the continent for the World Championships in England.
- Roundtable Insight and analysis from renowned writers and thinkers. This Tennis Life — Andre Agassi’s literary memoir is a sports book that even David Foster Wallace could have loved. Thrilla in Manila — Basketball is the dominant sport in the Philippines, where companies own the teams and bad calls aren’t tolerated by the fans. The Horns of a Dilemma — The end of bullfighting in Catalonia dims the lights on one of Spain’s oldest sports.
- Audio & Video
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The World in Time: Secret Lives of Insects
Anthropologist Hugh Raffles uncovers the dramatic lives and deaths of insects in his new book Insectopedia, from cricket fighting in Shanghai to the Japanese trend of keeping beetles as pets.
Arts & Letters
2010: Spring
Religion
2010: Winter
Medicine
2009: Fall
Travel
2009: Summer
Crimes & Punishments
2009: Spring
Eros
2009: Winter
Ways of Learning
2008: Fall
Book of Nature
2008: Summer
About Money
2008: Spring
States of War
2008: Winter